Every year, I get asked by one media outlet or another how to handle the office holiday party.  This year, I decided to share the advice I and others provided to the Wall Street Journal last weekend:   “We spend so much time communicating on Blackberries and e-mail, the office party is a rare opportunity to really meet the people who ...

Vickie Hann, HR Director at the Hilton Arlington near my old stomping grounds of Washington D.C., contacted me to share the great work her hotel is doing around the Earth Charter, an international people’s treaty for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century.   At the Hilton Arlington, an Earth Charter ...

[ImageAttachment]   This week, the human resources field is abuzz with the news that napping at work can help prevent heart disease. The catalyst?  A study just published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, which is being covered in thousands of news outlets, including Reuters and the Washington Post, as we speak.  To reach ...

Last week, Yahoo! ran a piece about people in the public eye who made big professional strides and damaging missteps during 2006, and how we can learn from their experiences.  Here are some of my thoughts on the subject, some of which were included in the article.   Amelie Mauresmo, who won two tennis majors this year after years of ...

The Society for Human Resource Management reports that CCH Inc., a provider of HR and employment law information and services, has released its 2006 Unscheduled Absence Survey.  The rate of unscheduled absences rose to 2.5 percent in 2006, the highest it has been since 1999.  Unscheduled absences cost some large employers an estimated ...